- Alite. I have a question for you.
Have you ever heard someone say,
your audio is just as important
as your video, maybe even more.
Well they're right, but getting great audio
isn't always as easy as just having nice gear
and a nicely quiet sound treated room.
Sometimes we have to make do with what we have
and try make it sound as good as possible
in post-production.
And this is where you say, but Dunna,
I've already spent all this time learning
how to film and edit videos,
I don't wanna have to learn
how to do all that audio garbage too.
Okay. I hear you.
So in this video, what we're gonna do
is I'm gonna show you how to fix problems in your audio
as well as make it sound super awesome,
all with just a couple of plugins
from Accusonus and to celebrate the release
of their brand new voice changer plugin.
We're also gonna go through a couple of more fun things
that you can do with your audio as well.
So secure the cup and let's get ready to make some noise.
Get it? Noise.
'Cause it's a video about audio.
Just roll the intro.
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Okay. So I've got a clip loaded up
that's got some pretty problematic audio in it.
I've got my headphones in so that I can mix better,
I highly recommend listening to this on headphones
if you can,
you should be able to hear the difference either way but
it'll be easier to hear if you've got the headphones in.
Let's take a quick listen
and see what we're working with here.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
What is going on?
Okay. So as you can hear, there's a ton of noise,
lots of traffic noise and wind noise in the background,
this was recorded with a lav mic attached to my chest
and it actually did a pretty decent job,
all things considered.
It was way windier than it sounds like it was,
so I'm pretty happy with that
but there's a lot of cleaning up that we can still do.
So the first thing that we're gonna do,
is we're gonna head over to the Fairlite page
which is DaVinci's kind of audio page
but this'll work in any of your non-linear editors
whether it's Premiere or Final Cut or anything like that.
So right off the bat,
the first thing that I wanna do is clean up the noise.
We're gonna go over to effects,
We're gonna go down to noise reduction
and we're gonna go to VST.
Now, you'll see all these ERA 5 plugins.
This is the plugin bundle that I'm talking about
made by Accusonus, they're fantastic plugins
and they make things so easy.
So we're gonna start with the ERA 5 noise remover,
and it's one big knob.
We're gonna start by turning the processing all the way down
and we're just gonna gradually bring it up.
Check, check one, two.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite and it is...
so basically, this big knob in the middle is just an amount.
How much of this effect do you want on your clip?
So right now I've got it at 26%
and let's hear the difference,
so this is before,
check, check one, two
and this is after,
check, check one, two.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
So it makes a huge difference
and we're only at 26% right now.
Now you can go way overboard with this...
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
And that's actually, honestly that's really impressive
how much it was able to kinda isolate the voice,
but it's definitely kinda getting on top of it a little bit,
so that's why you wanna kinda dial it in
where it sounds best.
Another thing that you can do down at the bottom here
is you can choose what it's focusing on.
So for example, we've got all frequencies,
we can have it focus on just the high frequencies.
So for example, if you had like a hiss
or something in your room, primarily
just on the low frequencies
if you've got more of a hum, high and low frequencies
or you can have mid frequencies,
or really, all we had to do is turn this on
bring it all the way down and gradually bring it up
until it sounds good, and we got it.
The next thing that we're gonna do
is we're going to go back to noise reduction, VST again
and we're gonna go to the Auto EQ.
Now, if you don't know what an EQ is,
essentially, it's how we kinda shape the sound,
how much bass, how much treble,
all that kind of stuff in there.
And it can get really, really complicated
and you can do all sorts of things with it,
and this makes it easy as the name suggests,
it just does it automatically.
So all we have to do is start playing somewhere
and it starts listening.
Check one, two.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
What is going on?
Okay. So after a second it says, analysis completed.
And then basically, down at the bottom here
we've got our intensity,
so how much of the effect we want to do.
I'm gonna dial back the intensity,
I find usually it's a little more than I want to start with.
So dial it back to about a two.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
So this, maybe you could come up just a little bit
to a three, off.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
And then you can fine tune it if you really want to
by moving this dot around so we can have more body.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite...
More clarity, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Or more air.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
So body is gonna be kinda like the chest sound,
those kinda low frequencies,
your air is gonna be kinda the upward hiss
like the treble stuff
and then clarity is gonna be kinda the mids where the
intelligibility of your vocals are.
Generally, I find somewhere in the middle works pretty well.
And then if you want it to relearn again,
you can hit those learn button and it'll analyze again,
you're good to go.
The next thing that we wanna do
is we want to level it out.
So we're gonna go down to the ERA 5 voice leveler.
So what this is gonna do, as you can see
on the wave form here, I get quieter
and then I get louder again,
and then I get quieter at the end,
it's going to level it all out
so that we can hear everything I'm saying.
So if we turn this off to start with...
So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
What is going on?
So for example, at the very end there, I say
what is going on?
And I'm kind of like, soft,
so what we're gonna do is turn this on
and we'll hit play again.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
What is going on?
So now, that what is going on
is almost the same volume as the rest of it,
it's leveled it all out
and we can go crazy with this if we want,
I find that this kind of 30 or 40% seems to be good
for the way that I record my dialogue.
There are a couple of different buttons down
at the bottom here.
There's this breath control button
which allows you to analyze for breaths
and make sure that it doesn't bring up the volume
of the breaths 'cause essentially what it's doing
is bringing up the volume of low pieces
to match the louder pieces
but you don't want your breaths to constantly be louder.
So you can hit that if you want,
I find that on my dialogue, the way that I talk
and the way that I edit my voice, it's not necessary.
Then there's something called emphasis.
And basically, what this does
is it puts a little bit of a high frequency emphasis
and a little bit of a push on certain parts of the vocal.
If you've got someone who's moving off
of the microphone a lot, it can help with that as well.
I'll show you what that sounds like here.
So this is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
What is going on?
So in this specific case, I don't think it's necessary
because I'm pretty loud and clear the whole time
but whatever you're using it on, it's there for you.
Okay. So generally this is a pretty good setup
with these three plugins.
We've got our noise fixed, we've got our auto EQ
and then we've got our voice leveler
to make everything kind of more even.
But here's a fun fact,
when you hear yourself back recorded like this,
you're actually hearing it differently,
more like, what other people hear you like
and it can be a little bit jarring sometimes
because when we hear ourselves
we're not only hearing through our ears
through the pressure of our eardrums,
but we're also hearing through what's called
bone conduction, we're vibrating our own bones.
And so when you hear yourself
you hear yourself with a deeper voice.
So if you wanna mimic that, if you wanna try
and make it sound to everybody else, like you sound,
you can use something called our voice deepener.
So we're gonna go down to our ERA 5 voice deepener
and add that, and check this out.
So this is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
So this is before,
This is the PRVKEd lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
And this is after.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Personally, I don't usually use this
because I'm gotten used to hearing myself back recorded,
but if you wanna make yourself sound a little bit deeper
than what the recording came across,
or if the microphone made it sound not quite
as deep as your actual voice is,
or if you just wanna have that kinda announcer sound
you can use this, let's get rid of that one for now.
The other thing that I noticed is
that the auto EQ has really brought up
a lot of the high frequencies
and some of the S's and T's are
coming through a little bit harsh.
So let's head back in and we're gonna grab the De-Esser.
And that is what it sounds like it is,
it's going to get rid of the S's.
It's going to De-ess it.
And again, simple one knob plugin.
All you gotta do is bring it up to the amount that you want.
So we're going to listen through.
This is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh.
Now again, with any of these plugins,
you can go really far with them
and it'll start to sound a little funny.
So if we crank this up,
so this is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Sounds like I got gum stuck to the top of my mouth
or something like that.
So we're gonna dial it back a little bit
and down to the bottom here
it actually shows you a wave form readout,
and in green, it's showing you
where it's affecting the vocal.
This is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
Now, so far we've gone over five of the ERA 5 plugins.
We've used four of them to shape our dialogue in this video
but there are even more options
for specific cleanup of specific types of audio.
For example, there's something called the plosive remover
and a plosive is essentially a P or a B,
a lot of air being blown straight into the microphone
and it'll make this kind of pufft, sound.
So you can fix that by using the plosive remover.
And it'll sounds something like this,
and it'll make this kind of pufft, sound,
and we'll make this kind of pufft, sound.
Now from time to time
you might also set your audio levels wrong
and get a little bit of clipping,
or if you set them right
but then something really loud happens all of a sudden,
it might clip the levels, you can use the audio De-Clipper
and this doesn't even have a knob,
it's just got two types of processing,
turn it on or turn it off,
and then you've got standard or high quality,
and it might sound something like this.
So here I am talking at a reasonable level
and then all of a sudden, I get a little loud.
So here I am talking at a reasonable level
and then all of a sudden, I get a little loud.
Now, what if you've got somebody
who makes a lot of noise with their mouth,
maybe they just finished eating something,
you've got this ERA 5 mouth De-Clicker
and it might sound something like this.
I don't know what you're talking about, (mouth chewing)
I sound fine. (mouth chewing)
I don't know what you're talking about, (mouth chewing)
I sound fine. (mouth chewing)
And then for those times, when you're recording in a room
that's got a lot of reverb, there's also a reverb remover
and it works similar to the noise remover.
So some of these controls will look really familiar
but it's gonna be targeting the reverb
rather than the noise.
Welcome to the living room where there's lots of reverb
and the fridge is constantly making noise.
Welcome to the living room where there's lots of reverb
and the fridge is constantly making noise.
(finger snaps)
And as if that wasn't enough, there's also a pro bundle
that comes with more plugins, pro versions
of some of the plugins
that give you a little bit more control.
For example, we've got a De-Esser pro
and noise remover pro and a reverb remover pro.
So if we look at the noise remover pro,
essentially it's got some presets in here.
So let's say we were doing fan noise, it'll set it for you.
And these are different frequencies,
and you've still got your one knob processing down here
for your master kind of amount
but you've also got individual control over your bass,
your mids and your high frequencies
and how much processing it's doing
to get rid of the noise in those different bands.
But I promised I'd keep it simple,
so we're gonna stick with the one knob ones for now.
Now, before we get into the crazy effects,
there is one more thing that I wanna show you.
If we get rid of all of our plugins here,
they've also made this super easy by giving us
the audio clean-up assistant.
Five different slots where you can put
any of those ERA 5 plugins.
So first we wanna do our noise remover,
then we wanna do do our auto EQ, De-Esser
and then we wanna do our voice leveler.
And so I've basically got the same chain
but it's all in one convenient plugin.
Okay. So here's before.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
And then there's after.
Okay. So this is the PRVKE lite
and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Just makes it so easy.
Okay. But I promised you weird stuff,
so let's look at some weird stuff.
So Accusonus just released the voice changer plugin
and this is really, really fun, check this out.
Okay. So every effect in this plugin
is made up of three different parts.
There's the character, the effect and the environment.
And this is really cool
because you've got different characters
that you can choose different types of human effects,
robots, supernatural, like monsters and aliens and stuff.
Then you've got an effect, so we can have radio,
we can have a cell phone, you can have a megaphone
all that kind of stuff.
And then you've got the environment,
so this is gonna be like, reverb and delay,
and those kinds of things.
So you've got your bathroom, you've got all the nature,
you've got public spaces, like a train station,
that kind of stuff.
And right at the top here, we've got presets
that are kind of pre-made versions of what you might need.
So let's say you've got a scene in your video
where it's supposed to be someone hearing an announcement
over an Intercom system in an airport.
So you go down to the creator basic pack,
choose airport announcement and...
So this is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
Or maybe it's supposed to sound like,
you're hearing like a weather report
coming through a radio, a small radio in the kitchen.
So this is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's the windy.
Why is it so windy?
How about Titan?
So this is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's the windy.
Why is it so windy?
(chuckles)
It's too funny.
So you can get as crazy as you want with this
and if you take away the character,
the effect and the environment can be quite useful
just on their own as well.
So we can bypass it by hitting that little button there
and then if you go over to this, we can choose our
let's say, a megaphone effect,
and I can turn that up a little bit,
maybe turn off the environment.
So this is the PRVKE lite and it is the teeniest, cutest.
Oh my gosh, it's windy.
Why is it so windy?
So that on its own could be really useful.
All right. So that's a look at the ERA 5 plugins
from Accusonus, I've been using them
since they were the ERA 4 plugins.
They're really helpful, they're really easy to use
and that's coming from a person
who is a professional audio engineer.
I know how to do all this stuff
but sometimes I just love the ease of use
that comes with a one knob system.
And for those of you
who don't necessarily know how to do all that stuff
or maybe you don't wanna buy complicated plugins
and then have to learn how to use them,
these are absolutely perfect for beginners,
people who don't wanna spend too much time on it.
And of course, there are links in the description
so you can check out Accusonus
and everything that they have to offer
which is so much more than even what I showed in this video.
And as always, I wanna hear from you,
so make sure to leave a comment down below
and let me know what you thought of all these plugins.
If you have any questions or anything like that
leave them down there and on your way down
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Thank you so much for watching.
Thank you to Accusonus for sponsoring this video.
And I'll see you next time.
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